Wands (and hating wands)

I unfortunately got a wand from an emissary quest today that warforged. I’ve been smiting the target dummies in Boralus counting up to 150 smites without a wand attack (3 probable “lag keeps me from queuing up smite” because the global cooldown wasn’t incurred).

How many smites would you feel you had to cleanly cast on a target dummy before you would consider using a 390 wand over a 370 mace?

Well, my only issue with wands is that you can’t transmog your Artifact over it.

I didn’t know there was an issue with casting when using wands. Is that really a thing?

There a multiple posts in the bug report forums, and I haven’t seen a report of a fix. Example:

why did they ruin wands? they’re supposed to just be a relic slot item that you can fire off like an auto attack. With mana mostly gone wands are like the last guy at the party who won’t leave.